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"No More Parties in LA" is a song by American rapper Kanye West from his seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo (2016), featuring vocals from fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was produced by West and Madlib, who began the recording in 2010. The beat was originally offered to Freddie Gibbs before being given to West and Lamar by Madlib. The song was released as the third promotional single from the album as part of West's GOOD Fridays series on January 18, 2016.

Background and development
. From 2013 to 2014, Kendrick Lamar supported West on The Yeezus Tour. He co-wrote West's single "All Day", which was released in March 2015. "No More Parties in LA" marked the first ever collaboration between Lamar and West. On February 16, 2016, shortly after the release of The Life of Pablo, West revealed that they have 40 unreleased songs together. He continued, stating that he and fellow rapper Young Thug also having 40 songs amounted to a "40/40 club!!!" In 2010, West launched his weekly free music series GOOD Fridays for his fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which was released that same year. At the end of the song, a snippet of "No More Parties in LA" was included. Drake responded by uploading a photo to his Instagram that showed a vinyl copy of the recording's parent album One in a Million You (1980). In reference to the track, the rapper captioned the photo: "FEW MORE PARTIES IN LA." "No More Parties in LA" also samples American rapper Ghostface Killah's "Mighty Healthy", for which the rapper, Herb Rooney, Mathematics, and Highleigh Crizoe received writing credits. The sample marked the second time that West had sampled the recording, with the first being on his single "New God Flow" in 2012. ==Recording==
Recording
performing in 2014|The song was produced by West and Madlib, who made the beat on his iPad and was responsible for the main backdrop, whereas the rapper crafted its intro. West and American musician Madlib began production on the song in 2010, starting to record it during the sessions for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, then known as Good Ass Job. Explaining the contributions to the song's production with a tweet, West confirmed he put together the intro while Madlib crafted the main backdrop. He worked on the final mix with record producer Noah Goldstein in the studio, who engineered the track. Madlib also mentioned that when sampling a recording by a musician, he will look through the entirety of its parent album to find samples. ==Composition and lyrics==
Composition and lyrics
Musically, "No More Parties in LA" is a hip-hop track, with soul elements. The song is heavily based around samples of "Suzie Thundertussy", written and performed by Walter "Junie" Morrison. As well as being sampled in the song's production, the recording is utilized for vocal samples. The recording is combined with samples of the lyrics "Shake that body / Party that body" from an a capella version of "Mighty Healthy", written by Rooney, Mathematics, Crizoe, and its performer Ghostface Killah. For the song's intro, samples are used of "la-dee-da-das" from "Give Me My Love" (1977), written and performed by Johnny "Guitar" Watson. West briefly raps alongside Lamar at the start of the song, who performs the first verse and adds to the backdrop. Layers of production drop out after the verse, being followed by West performing the chorus. West raps for the song's remainder, with him contributing a 90-bar verse. The song closes with sound effects of crowd cheers from the basketball video game NBA Jam (2010). Lamar chronicles the beginning of a relationship; he references American singer-songwriter Erykah Badu in one line, using her for a sexual verb. Meanwhile, West name-drops fellow artists Lauryn Hill, Cam'ron, and André 3000. West mentions a Pablo character in certain lyrics of the song that he claims to "feel like", though does not explicitly state who the character is. With the references to it, West offers an introduction of the Pablo character of The Life of Pablo. Prior to the song's bridge, he calls out his cousin for stealing his laptop, continuing the subject of his theft that the rapper previously mentioned on "Real Friends". ==Release and artwork==
Release and artwork
"No More Parties in LA" missed its original scheduled Friday release date of January 15, 2016. "No More Parties in LA" was released via SoundCloud as the second promotional single for SWISHs GOOD Fridays series on Monday January 18, 2016. Alongside West's announcement of the song's release, he tweeted the song's cover art. The artwork was described by Capital Xtra as a "throwback picture". ==Critical reception==
Critical reception
"No More Parties in LA" was met with universal acclaim from music critics, who mostly complimented West's verse. Matthew Ramirez of Pitchfork directed praise towards West's lyrical content, remarking that his "ability to connect to listeners" makes "the problems and lifestyles of the very, very rich" feel relatable. NME author Leonie Cooper expressed a similar sentiment, lauding the song for being "doused with an old school soul vibe" and "vintage class", attributing both to Madlib's production while highlighting the sampling of "Stand Up and Shout About Love". Cooper preferred West's performance to Lamar's, admitting that despite the latter's "strong opening" in which he "eloquently airs some impressively mucky musings", West "shines" and she was not surprised by this due to the song being "his track first and foremost". Comparing West and Lamar's verses, he said "Kanye is the more effective and affecting: Kendrick is abstract" while elaborating by opining that Lamar's performance "could as easily be symbolic as personal" but West's verse "meanwhile, is packed with the kind of simultaneous relatable, everyday arrogance and self-effacement that made his earliest work resonate". In Digital Spy, Lewis Corner stated the song features West and Lamar "spitting lyrical over hard beats and a soulful, hazy backdrop", praising the sampling of "Suzie Thundertussy" in particular. Spins Kyle McGovern referenced the delayed release by labeling the song "worth the wait", with him branding it as "stunning" and complimenting Lamar's "masterful" verse. In reviews of The Life of Pablo, critical commentary towards "No More Parties in LA" was similarly positive. For The Line of Best Fit, Tom Thorogood wrote that the song's beat having the allowance "to ride out" makes for an impressive result. Reviewing The Life of Pablo for Spin, Greg Tate voiced strongly positive feelings towards West's performance on the song by calling it "the only duet-cut" on which he "displays enough oomph" for another artist not to be needed. Accolades Reactor 105.7 FM ranked "No More Parties in LA" as the 78th best song of 2016. The track was voted in at number 66 on The Village Voices Pazz & Jop poll for that year with 8 mentions, being tied for the position with 9 other songs. Pitchfork named the track as the 32nd best song of 2016, with Raymond Cummings noting its potential to be "Kanye West's most urgently scatterbrained banger" while praising the performances of West and Lamar. On the Reader's Poll for the Top 50 Songs of 2016 that was conducted by the publication, "No More Parties in LA" was placed at number 16 from the readers' votes. The track was listed by HipHopDX as the 13th best song of the year. Its highest positioning was given by Treblezine, who ranked "No More Parties in LA" the seventh best song of 2016. West's verse was listed among the 20 best verses of 2016 by Complex, with Ross Scarano describing his performance as "a long verse that unwinds with the energy of Forrest Gump realizing he doesn't need those leg braces" and also noting the verse as showing him being "spiteful, funny, candid, paternal, drugged out and [...] lusty". Jack O'Keeffe from Bustle wrote in a 2016 article that if West wants to win Best Rap Performance at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, then the song may be "his best shot" at winning the award. It was ultimately nominated in no categories whatsoever at the ceremony in 2017, which Sam Rullo of the publication viewed as a snub. ==Commercial performance==
Commercial performance
Following the release of The Life of Pablo, "No More Parties in LA" debuted at number three on the US Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. It only spent one week on the chart. In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at number 133 on the UK Singles Chart. The song further reached number 39 on the UK R&B Chart. ==In popular culture==
In popular culture
festival|Yasiin Bey referenced the song with "No More Parties in SA", which was recorded in South Africa. Under his real name of Yasiin Bey, fellow rapper Mos Def posted a freestyle to West's website entitled "No More Parties in SA" in reference to "No More Parties in LA" on January 20, 2016. On the freestyle, Bey raps multiple claims of innocence. Bey posted the full message to West's Twitter page, calling him "a real friend". Speaking of using the song's beat for the remix, Freddie Gibbs commented that he "had to show [West and Lamar] how to do it". West released a sweatshirt inspired by The Life of Pablo in May 2016 that reads "LOS ANGELES" in a triangular pyramid-shaped graphic on the front, while it features "NO MORE PARTIES IN LA" in red script on the back. Erykah Badu responded to Lamar's name–drop of her in it in July 2016, tweeting a photograph of the two of them at the 2013 BET Awards and writing, "[he] ain't called me since y'all made up some s[hi]t about us being in the trailer makin' out so he missed his award." American record producer Sporting Life shared his "Golf Master" remix of the song on February 16, 2017. Morrison's sampled vocals are looped up for the remix while West's vocals are filtered down to a whisper, and it adds dreamy keys. == Credits and personnel ==
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from West's official website. Recording • Mixed at Larrabee Studios, North Hollywood, CA PersonnelKanye West songwriter, production • Madlib songwriter, production • Kendrick Lamar songwriter, vocals • John Watson songwriter • Walter Morrison songwriter • Herbert Rooney songwriter • Ronald Bean songwriter • Highleigh Crizoe songwriter • Ghostface Killah songwriter • Larry Graham songwriter • Tina Graham songwriter • Sam Dees songwriter • Malik Yusef songwriter • Noah Goldstein engineer • Andrew Dawson engineer • MixedByAli engineer • Manny Marroquin mixer • Chris Galland assistant mixer • Ike Schultz assistant mixer • Jeff Jackson assistant mixer ==Charts==
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